With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin

Monday, September 14, 2009

The CoLLapse Movie Website Goes Live!

As of September 14th the web site for CoLLapse has gone live. http://www.collapsemovie.com/ Please spread the word. We've had four out of four great reviews and one review gave us the only A. Jenna's going to be be posting these for us. Another reviewer said it was the best film of the festival. I'd try to describe the emotional roller coaster I'm on but you'd need a barf bag.

And everyone please note who got a link in the links section. No one I know deserves that more. I am proud to be in your company in public, Rice Farmer.

If memory serves, Gardner and other family members were concerned about preserving the footprints of the towers as well as other issues related to memorializing the dead. WTCEO was interested in highlighting the populations that were being overlooked in the celebratory "moving forward," particularly those who were sick or dying as a result of the EPA's lies.

It was a classic politics-makes-strange-bedfellows collaboration, born of the classic cause: a common enemy.

8 comments:

The poster is bad ass Mike, love it. Can't wait to see the film. Lemme buy you lunch or dinner some time since you've been rollin coins lately :) I'm back from New Jersey livin in Hermosa and working in Palos Verdes for the moment. Cant bring myself to read the articles any more Jenna - just the headlines, but thanks so much. Give a holler anytime for a bite Mike 732-233-8908

Please fix the broken link on the site. Under books and DVDs the first photo shows as not there. The link works but the photo of the book has been moved. It has been that was a long time and I just kept quiet, figuring it would get repaired on its own.

Been traveling and this site is my link to what is really going on. You are the BEST!!!

It is a sterling honor to be linked at the Collapse site, especially since, in my own estimation at least, so many others deserve the honor more. Be it known that the inspiration for that humble blog is MCR's work and sacrifice. I am but one of many who must help carry the torch: Inform the public, save lives, and build a better world out of the wreckage piling up before our eyes.

Its simplistic solutions, such as cash-for-clunkers (including airplanes!) and a new generation of super-light cars, might or might not mitigate the sharp decline we can expect in oil availability, but I fail to see how anybody wins anything in even the medium term.

The report says we can use half the natural gas (by increasing efficiency), then use the half we saved to replace the depletion in oil. This ignores the fact that both are depleting, no matter how slowly we use them. What will replace petroleum?

The expectation that "Recent advances in biotechnology and cellulose-to-ethanol conversion can double previous techniques' yield" ignores the miniscule yield that these technologies currently produce. Perhaps we can slow somewhat the decline of industrial civilization, by increasing efficiency and developing new technologies. But the combination of magic bullet technology and government subsidy seems farfetched in an age that cannot keep its teachers paid, its roads maintained and a roof over everyone.

I would change the title to "Games at the End of Cheap Oil".

Andrew The Fox gave us

...a think-tank recommendation that the U.S. should threaten military action against Iran.

Very disturbing. Two of Bipartisan Policy Center's four founders (in 2007) were Tom Daschle and George Mitchell -- both of them Obama familiars. This could be "talkin' tough" to keep the Iranians guessing, but it shifts the dialog to a serious consideration of predictable tragedy. Meanwhile, the American "Peace Movement" seems to be ignoring the Democrats' "Af-Pak" war, even while the British public is overwhelmingly rejecting it. And of course, "we" are still in Iraq, after all this time.

William J. Lynn III, Deputy Secretary of Defense, was most recently senior vice president of Government Operations and Strategy at Raytheon Company (and a registered lobbyist for Raytheon). He had been Comptroller of the Pentagon during the time that trillions "went missing". Robert Hale, the current Pentagon Comptroller, was Comptroller of the Air Force at that time. Catherine Austin Fitts aptly quipped:

"I guess the guys who got the last $3.3 trillion were pretty happy with Mr. Lynn and Mr. Hale and decided to bring them back!!"

Frank Kendall III, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, was another Raytheon vice president. His immediate subordinant, Shay Assad, Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, was also a VP for Raytheon. James Jones, the National Security Advisor, has served on the boards of both Boeing and Chevron. Etc., etc.... People who think that we live in a peace-loving democracy almost deserve what they get.